The nonpartisan (constitutionalist) Provisional Confederate Congress authorizes the recruiting of 400,000 volunteers to join the Army of the Confederate States, for the purpose of repelling the promised invasion.
[restored 2/1/2025]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Confederate Constitution, Article I, Section 8 [Clause 12]
avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csa.asp#a1
References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 284.
Current U.s. National Debt:
